Fourth of July Weekend

I have no pictures but thought I would post an update on my week and weekend.

On Sunday 6/29 Scott left for a 5 day business trip to Calgary Canada. I was nervous about being on my own with 3 kids - but it wasn't too bad. I had a friends pre-teen daughter come Mon, Tue, and Wed afternoons to help with the girls. On Wednesday the girls spent the night with their Aunt Emily and Thursday was the annual Aunt Zoo trip. While they were gone I was tending to a fussy Samuel, cleaning up the house for company and then picked Scott up from the airport. That night we had dinner @ my mother-in-law's house and met up with the girls. We walk in with a sleeping baby and set the car seat down. Joanna immediately starts poking him/playing with him. Before I can finish admonishing her to stop because she is going to wake him up - she announces with glee "Look mom, he's awake!" So goes life with a 5 year old and a newborn. Madeline isn't quite as enthralled, but she still manages to get her share of bugging her brother in.

On Friday we had friends come from Dayton, OH to celebrate the 4th with. They have daughters the same age as Joanna and Madeline. The girls were so excited to have their friends come and Scott and I were excited as well. We spent a quiet afternoon napping with all the kids - amazing even Joanna managed to sleep. After dinner we headed out to see the fireworks. Madeline has finally gotten over her fear of them and enjoyed herself. If you ever want to have a true appreciation of fireworks - take Joanna with you. She spent the whole evening doing a running commentary of each one. Words such as:

Humongous - which means really huge
Mushrooms - the shape
Trees - shaped fireworks
gimantic - which is Joanna speak for big

Saturday afternoon our guests left and I spent the rest of the day getting ready for school to begin on Monday.

On Sunday we had lunch at Scott's mom's and then that evening we gathered with a small group from our church for dinner. It was an enjoyable time fellowshipping in a small group.

I hope everyone else had a fun and safe holiday. Leave me a comment and let me know how yours was :)

Dawn